My nephew's 2 minute rant about loading screens changed how I see old games

I was over at my brother's place last weekend and his 14 year old son was watching me play Dark Souls on my PS3. He asked why I was staring at a 'please wait' screen for 45 seconds between deaths. I told him that's just how games were back then, you got coffee during loading. He pointed out that modern games load in 5 seconds on his Series S. It hit me that we normalized waiting as part of gaming when it's actually terrible design. Now I'm wondering how many other things I just accepted because everyone else did. Has anyone else had a younger person call out something you thought was normal?

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tarab543d ago

Tbh I think those pauses gave us time to reflect on what just killed us which added to the tension.

olivia_chen353d ago

Right, because nothing builds tension like staring at a blurry "YOU DIED" screen long enough to question your life choices. Pretty sure the 'reflection time' was just me debating if the coffee was worth the runback. Maybe kids these days are onto something with their instant respawns though.